Both Uses of
apparition
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- He was looking at a ghost of himself, a haunting apparition from years ago come back to stalk him, no matter who was the hunter now.†
Chpt 16 *apparition = a ghostlike figure or its appearance
- To an apparition that wanted to take him back into a hell that memory had blocked out.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(apparition as in: a headless apparition) a ghostlike figure or its appearance
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, apparition can refer to any strange, other-worldly, thing or its appearance. Even more rarely, apparition can by a synonym for appearance. The Harry Potter series uses the word both ways.